Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Someone recalled that President Grover Cleveland fished the Brule River in 1894, as the guest of the St. Paul Club. Antoine Denny, oldtime caretaker of the club's lodge on the Brule, was reported to be still at his post, eager to take care of another President...
...little house in Nussdorfer Street, where Franz Schubert was born 131 years ago, there was singing. Pictures of the composer were in windows and on walls all through the city. The Schubert exhibition attracted thousands of persons eager to see the manuscripts of his chamber music, the pens with which he had scribbled copybooks or concertos, the clothes he had worn, his spectacles. The city of Vienna celebrated Beethoven's anniversary last year; for Schubert its populace has an even more friendly adoration. There will be concerts there all summer in his honor and most of the houses will...
...heal. It is the increasing accumulation of silica particles and the continued growth of fibres that finally cause death. Perhaps the present agitation will move the New York State Legislature to pass the compensation bill it has neglected for four years. The Board of Transportation at any rate is eager to do its immediate utmost. Said deputy chief engineer Colonel John R. Slattery: ". . . Two methods of preventing trouble from this source have been approved. They are the use of gas masks and the carrying of an extra hose line with which to wet down the drilling surface. The men dislike...
Gene Howe had criticized Lindbergh for not landing on a field crowded with eager spectators. Despite threatening and sneering telegrams the obscure editor wrote another ironic column: "I'll grant that he has the courage, but I also insist that he is more or less simpleminded, or he would not have permitted his head to grow to such large proportions. It may be treason for me to say so, but the truth is that Lindbergh has had more extraordinary luck than anyone in modern history...
...symphonies and jazz-dances will not be played to an eager audience in the effort to discover which are best. They will be examined by five exceedingly able judges who, if none of the offerings are good enough to get the prize, will award the money to the "development of creative musical work in America. . . ." The five: Olga Samarov, onetime critic (1926-27) New York Evening Post, concert pianist, divorced wife and friend to Leopold Stokowski; Leopold (Anton Stanislaw) Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, by some able critics considered the world's best symphony conductor after Toscanini...